Passed Resolves; Resolves 1786, c.47, SC1/series 228, Petition of Charles Chandler

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455175 Date of creation: 1786-06-20 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Charles ChandlerSamuel ChandlerSarah StantonMary SeverLucretia ChandlerThomas ChandlerElizabeth Chandler Actions taken on dates: 1786-06-21,1786-06-21 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 21, 1786 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 21, 1786 and read and concurred Total signatures: 7 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female signatures: 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: real estate, lands, Worcester county, John Chandler, Worcester goal, debts, claims, Timothy Paine, bonds, annuity, annuities, mother, payments, sale, [includes additional documents, to maintaining an old negro woman 8 years, Sarah Chandler, Hannah Williams of Roxbury niece, John Williams, Eliot's bond, Captain Palmer Goulding, Joseph Greene, McCarty, Ammidown, Mill Farm, Samuel Eliot, Gardiner Williams, Martha Greene, Mr. Fairweather, Samuel Brooks, large document of payments due from John Chandler to Palmer Goulding beginning in 1766, mostly clothing, shoes, covers many years], [\"...by the very benign intention of the aforesaid act raises in the breasts of your petitioners feelings of gratitude beyond the power of description and inspires such a confidence in your honors as induces your petitioners to state to your honors the manner in which the aforesaid resolve is to have its effects; which they conceive to be in degree repugnant to your honors intentions...\"], [\"...in addition [missing] which your petitioners have to maintain a helpless infirm negro-woman...\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1786, c.47, passed June 23, 1786 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.